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BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA.
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Naranjo; Buenos Aires; El Generál; Tenório; Paso Reál, Boruca, Pozo del Rio Grande, and Lagarto, Boruca; Pigres; San Mateo; Esparta) and western Panamá (Divala and Davíd, Cliiriquí; Verágua).

Thamnophilus bridgesi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 141 (Davíd, Chiriquí, Panamá; coll. P. L. Sclater; = ?); 1858, 212 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit.-Mus., XV, 1890, 194 (Bugaba and Mina de Chorcha, Panamá). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 144 (Davíd, Panamá); 1870, 194 (Bugaba and Mina de Chorcha). — Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 107 (San Mateo, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 305 (Costa Rica). — Zeledón, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 114 (Las Trojas and Pozo Azúl de Pirrís, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 199, pl. 49, fig. 2. — Cherrie, Auk, x, 1893, 279, 280 (Pacific side Costa Rica, up to 2,200 ft.; crit.; habits); Anal. Inst. Fis.-Geog. Costa Rica, vi, 1893,17 (Pozo del Pitál, Costa Rica; syn.; crit.); Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 41 (Palmár, Boruca, Térraba, Lagarto, and Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica). — Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 296 (Boruca, Paso Reál, Pozo del Rio Grande, and Lagarto, s. w. Costa Rica). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 601 (Pacific lowlands and foothills, Costa Rica; habits).
[Thamnophilus] bridgesi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 12.
Thamnophilus punctatus (not Lanius punctatus Shaw, 1809[1]) Cabanis, Journ. für Orn., July, 1861, 241 (Costa Rica; coll. Berlin Mus.; = ?). — Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 107 (Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 305 (Costa Rica). — Salvin, Ibis, 1870, 110 (Costa Rica; crit); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 194 (Mina de Chorcha, Bugaba, and Volcan de Chiriquí, Panamá). — Zeledón, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 114 (Las Trojas and Pozo Azúl de Pirrís, Costa Rica). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 191 (Costa Rica; Bugaba and Mina de Chorcha, Panamá). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr. Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 198, pl. 49, fig. 1.
[Thamnophilus] punctatus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 12.
(?) Thamnophilus nigricristatus (not of Lawrence) Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 60 (San Carlos, Costa Rica; cites "Th. punctatus Cab.")[2]


Genus TARABA Lesson.

Taraba Lesson, Traité d'Orn., 1831, 375. (Type, Thamnophilus major Vieillot.)
Tabara (error) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 172.
Diallactes Reichenbach. Av. Syst. Nat., 1850, pi. 71. (Type, Thamnophilus major Vieillot.)

Large Formicariidæ (length about 200 mm.) with very stout but much compressed, strongly hooked bill, crested pileum, and white under parts, the adult males black above with white markings on wings, adult females chestnut or tawny brown above.

Bill nearly as long as head, very strong but compressed, strongly hooked; culmen nearly straight for most of its length, rather abruptly decurved terminally, the tip of maxilla strongly uncinate; maxillary


  1. Usually placed in Thamnophilus, but in this work designated as Erionotus punctatus (p. 49).
  2. Salvin and Godman, however (Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 195), place this reference under Cymbilanius lineatus.